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At the time of the Blitz, April 1942, I was 13 years of age and lived at 14 Burlington Street, off Julian Road. The first we heard was the bombs dropping quite near. There were six of us in the house at the time (flats) we all sat in the stairs leading to the basement. The bombs seemed to be all around us, it was usually Bristol which had the bombs. When the all-clear sounded we all had a cup of tea!! My mum鈥檚 brother who lived with us went to Julian Rd to see what had happened and it was still there at that time. As he came up Burlington street to return home the siren went, it was in that raid that Julian rod and St. Andrews church was destroyed. There were pains of glass broken in no 14. and the radio was broken on the floor, we had no gas, electricity or water for several days. We collected water from a lorry at the top of the street. We were near Lansdown Crescent, Julian Road, Lampards Buildings, Regina hotel and Assembly rooms. The Sunday night was also bad. On the Monday morning the Police told us to leave bath, so several of us walked to the field at Sham Castle, but it was so cold. We wandered home at 4 am and went to bed. Later I found several pieces of shrapnel in the garden but the tortoise was OK!

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